Senior Member Technical Staff (C)

We are looking for a key team member responsible for developing features to improve integration of the Oracle database with Apache Iceberg. The work done will include new functionality, performance optimizations and integration with all Oracle Cloud database products. This role requires strong C programming skills along with experience in SQL and PL/SQL or some similar procedural language.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on experience with databases, parallel and distributed systems and performance optimizations. Experience with Apache Iceberg or similar products would be desirable. Experience in product development, troubleshooting, defect diagnosis, and the ability to present technical details to various audiences is essential. Additionally, this role involves contributing to best practice documentation and product functionality guidelines.

The ideal candidate should be able to:

1. Develop database code using C, adhering to Oracle's Database Coding Standards.
2. Develop complex packages and stored procedures using SQL and PL/SQL.
3. Work with various open-source table and file formats such as Apache Iceberg, Delta Sharing etc.
4. Participate in feature design and quality assurance for both functionality improvements as well as performance optimizations.
5. Collaborate with teams within Oracle as well as external partners and strategic customers, to improve both functionality as well as performance.
6. Understand and work with Oracle’s Cloud platform and various external cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Personal Profile & Required Skills

1. Self-motivated team player with a proactive approach.
2. Strong ability to produce high-quality, detailed, and performant database software.
3. A curiosity for software technologies and a passion for building strong partner relationships.
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
5. Ability to multitask and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
6. Ability to quickly grasp and come up to speed on large and complex bodies of code.

Career Level - IC3

Additional Responsibilities

1. Product testing, including beta and pre-release stress/destructive tests.
2. Product training and documentation review.
3. Customer issue resolution (as advised by management).
4. On-site validation with partners and customers for release readiness.

Scope of Work & Impact

Customers are increasingly storing significant quantities of data in the Cloud. This data comprises of a large number of file formats and table layouts stored on various Cloud platforms. It is increasingly important for Oracle to be able to query this data and do so in a highly performant manner. This is a highly technical role that focuses on developing code to work with these disparate systems and ensure that the time taken to execute these queries is competitive with Oracle’s rivals. A platform of particular interest is Apache Iceberg which is swiftly becoming very important in the industry.

The developer in this role will work on (but not limited to): Reading Iceberg data generated by various Oracle and non-Oracle tools, working with cloud data catalogs that support Iceberg tables including but not limited to Oracle’s Central Catalog, Amazon Glue and various implementations of the Iceberg REST catalog interface, optimizing query performance on various data formats including but limited to Apache Iceberg and integrating with various cloud platform and identity management systems.

The candidate will collaborate with various teams within Oracle including the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team, the Database Actions Team, the SQL Performance team, the Parallel Query Development Group, the Query Service Team and the Stress Testing Group.

This role involves contributing to major initiatives such as Autonomous Database Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Data Lake Architectures and performance benchmarking. The work will directly impact Oracle’s ability to deliver class-leading Cloud Integration and will be a key component in the development of the capabilities of the Oracle database.